While many of the changes in United States’ media are discussed in relation to the 2016 election and Donald Trump’s presidency, “they are the symptoms of broader systemic dynamics that … Continued

How do people share and talk about news in private social media groups? ask Joëlle Swart and Marcel Broersma, of the University of Groningen, and Chris Peters, of Aalborg University … Continued

The Commentary and Criticism section of Feminist Media Studies is calling for papers on the topic “Gender, Migration, and the Media”. [spoiler title=’Submissions may address topics such as:’ style=’default’ collapse_link=’true’]* … Continued

“African Digital Media Review”, a Special Annual Issue of African Journalism Studies invites submissions of abstracts (maximum 300 words) for its fifth issue, whose focus is on ‘fake news, bots … Continued

Marko Ala-Fossi, Senior Lecturer at the University of Tampere talked to us about a recent report he has edited. The 356-page report, “The State of Media and Communications Policy and … Continued

The language of publication affects the narratives a journalistic interpretive community develops to position itself as a news authority, a new study argues. John C. Carpenter and Sujatha Sosale, of … Continued

The world around us is not naturally organized into categories for statistical analysis. For the purposes of data journalism, discrete, unique incidents, events, and people must be rendered as similar, … Continued

Practicing constructive journalism in the current conditions of St. Maarten “not only risks reflecting the status quo but also may play into the hands of the ones in power”, a … Continued

October 10-12 2018, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford will host the fourth International Journal of Press/Politics conference, focused on academic research on … Continued

We need to reconceptualize our expectations of citizens’ news use, state Brita Ytre-Arne and Hallvard Moe, of the University of Bergen, in a new article. The researchers identify gaps between … Continued